Posted on 02/16/2008 10:05:40 PM PST by bshomoic
| Voice of the People | Letters 17 February 2008
McCain to offer up a Rice Prez
U.S Elections 2008
By Nigel Nelson
Presidential wannabe John McCain is poised to ask US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to be his running mate - in a bid to see off Barack Obama.
Republican McCain believes Afro-American Condi could be his secret weapon now Obama looks most likely to become Democrat candidate.
And political pundits believe a McCain-Rice ticket would be unbeatable.
Washington columnist Nicholas von Hoffman said: "She is pure political gold. The woman is tough, fast on her feet and able to give better than she gets."
Polls say Obama would whip McCain by 50 per cent if they went head to head now.
The Republican is expected to win the backing of former President George Bush Snr tomorrow.
Meanwhile Obama's weakened rival for the Democrat candidacy, Hillary Clinton, is trying to appeal to middleclass and Latino voters ahead of the primaries in Wisconsin, Ohio and Texas.
Your post is spot on. I agree with everything you said. It’s sad that it’s come to this but it’s not surprising. The RINOS have been trying for years to get rid of the socons and now it looks like they’re getting what they wished for. Let’s see where that gets them.
Your post made me laugh out loud.
John McCain already earned our ire! He has shown it time and time again: he is Mr. Bipartisanship, a Democrat's best friend, and he has no allegiance to conservatism. He'll never stand for our causes when it's tough, because they are our causes, not his.
It would be stupid for us to expect anything different from John McCain. We elect the man, despite his track record, and he betrays us again. Stupidity does come to mind.
I don't believe that McCain will have much trouble winning the south. Factors such as his military service and sympathy for his suffering as a POW combined with the large population of retirees in the south and southwest give him a big leg up in that overall region. Obama will ensure a very high turnout of Afro-American voters in the south, but he will also ensure a higher than usual turnout of whites who aren't regulars at the voting booth, which could cancel out the other side of the coin and then some.
Where McCain needs the most help from a popular VP pick is in the states with a high percentage of young urban area voters who are predisposed to be against all things military, authoritative, and most of all OLD. Add to that the fact that young voters in most areas and especially in those states are excited about the idea of an Obama presidency and are turning out in record numbers for him in the primary race, and you can see a very hard row for McCain to hoe in those states.
I seriously doubt that any moderate or even liberal running mate would be of any substantial help to McCain in those states, and a liberal would just hurt his standing in the south. IMHO he may as well concentrate his efforts on the south, southwest, and the few midwestern and Rocky mountain states where so much of his mediocre strength lies, and hope that there are enough electoral votes to be had in those states to put him at or over 270.
Try as I may, the only outcome I can imagine for McCain vs Obama, which is obviously the inevitable match-up now, is a blowout win for Obama that may be even more one sided than the '64 Goldwater debacle or Reagan's second term election. But if my dismal 48 year record of election year prognostication holds true to form, McCain will manage to pull it off somehow and even though that isn't a very pleasant thought when taken by itself it's still better than the much more likely other way around.
snip.."She wants to be commissioner of the National Football League. She is serious."
''That's absolutely right,'' she said, ''though not immediately and not before Paul Tagliabue is ready to step down. I want to say that for the record.
''I think it would be a very interesting job because I actually think football, with all due respect to baseball, is a kind of national pastime that brings people together across social lines, across racial lines. And I think it's an important American institution.''
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It won’t do a thing the libs will paint her as not being black nor female enough.
It will probably get them poorly concealed contempt and ridicule from Democrats and a perpetual position of playing 2nd fiddle. I'm much more concerned about what it will mean for we conservatives who are now out in the cold far removed from the mainstream of both parties and quarreling among ourselves. Frankly, I haven't felt this dejected and discouraged by an election result since the Goldwater debacle in '64.
Yes and Bush undoubtedly will be the new Baseball Commissioner in his Post Presidency.
Search his name on Yahoo. His past personal life and his problems with the IRS and paying taxes in general would be brought out immediately. I like J.C. very, very much....and it's a darn shame, but he's effectively through except for occasional TV spots....or he may try to run again in his district, but I doubt it.
Leni
DRAFT CONDI RICE FOR VICE PRESIDENT (Seriously)
Condoleezza Rice for Vice President 2008
Condiacs hoping for a vice presidential nod for Condoleezza Rice
Over FIVE "put Condi on the ticket" threads since February started. Hmmm. The powers that be in the MSM sure seem to be pushing hard for Rice, trying to resurrect the dead Condista movement amoung conservatives after freepers and other grassroots activists realized what a closet RINO she is over a year ago. The "Draft Condi" movement, long thought dead, is now rising from it's grave like a zombie that's in no condition to live again. Considering Condi's "record" in the state dept., one wonders why the MSM is so hell bent in pushing Rice. Someone definitely has an agenda here.
Since we're apparently going to continue seeing these "Rice for Vice President" articles pop up, I might as well help out and come up with some slogans for the effort:
CONDI RICE FOR VEEP
Conservatives need not apply.
CONDI RICE FOR VEEP
We wanted Colin Powell, but Obama got him first.
CONDI RICE FOR VEEP
Let's balance a mildly pro-life candidate with a mild pro-choicer.
(Of course, the Dems will still be running two RABID pro-aborts anyway)
CONDI RICE FOR VEEP
Four out of Five RINOs agree!
CONDI RICE FOR VEEP
2,865 talking heads in the mainstream media can't be wrong!
CONDI RICE FOR VEEP
Vladmir Putin approved!
CONDI RICE FOR VEEP
Dems use affirmative-action as their criteria -- why can't we?
CONDI RICE FOR VEEP
Mahmoud Abbas approved!
CONDI RICE FOR VEEP
Clearly, McCain needs "help" with his national security credentials.
CONDI RICE FOR VEEP
Vote Beltway insiders 2008.
CONDI RICE FOR VEEP
Reminding voters of the Bush administrations "achievements" with Mexico, Israel & the U.N.
CONDI RICE FOR VEEP
Because McCain just ain't liberal enough.
Eggxactly, El Cid!
Neither RINO Rice nor Michael Steele will help anti-conservative McLame.
-—————My basis for going for McCain is SCOTUS picks.-—————
I’m sorry, but I couldn’t let that go.
I’m not going to pretend to know what you know.
So let’s just say that you might want to familiarize yourself with three names, Starting from (1) Justice Souter and working backwards to (2) governor sununu to the real source of this problem. (3) warren Rudman.
Warren Rudnam right now sits on McCain’s campaign.
Then there’s McCain Feingold, McCain Kennedy, McCain Lieberman, and all of the other things that McCain has done over the past years.
To think that McCain would nominate judges that would overturn his signature bills defies logic.
At CPAC, Senator John McCain promised:
I intend to nominate judges who have proven themselves worthy of our trust that they take as their sole responsibility the enforcement of laws made by the people’s elected representatives, judges of the character and quality of Justices Roberts and Alito, judges who can be relied upon to respect the values of the people whose rights, laws and property they are sworn to defend.
“Your post made me laugh out loud.”
If Hill or Bama gets in, we’ll be crying.
Yet Obama is "black enough" with a white mother? Yet Hillary is "female enough" being married Bill and having to wear the pants in the family?
“Or Alan Keyes.”
Alan Keyes is electoral death.
I think Rice’s recent statements regarding Kosovo would require a good pause for reflection and re-evalutation on McCain’s part.
Does McCain really want to bring her on, only to have the Kosove/Serbia situation immediately explode under Condi’s watch?
Yeah I saw that debate and Alan Keyes took OB out to the woodshed....is the debate on Keyes site?
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